Word: stewart
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After carefully reviewing the haphazard use of capital punishment, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart concluded in 1972 that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment "in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." A majority of five Justices used words like "arbitrary," "capricious" and "freakish" about the application of the penalty. They joined together to shut down the nation's death rows with a ruling that sounded to many like a constitutional ban on executions. Last week all possibility of such a ban ended when the Justices voted seven to two that capital...
...MAIN ARTICLE in the Spring issue deals with space colonies. It runs 48 pages, featuring 76 famous people or friends of Stewart Brand (guiding light of The Catalog and editor of The Quarterly) writing on what they think about the possibilities of building cities in space. The article includes not only such popular scientists as Carl Sagan, Lewis Mumford, and Buckminister Fuller, but also Richard Brautigan and poet Gary Snyder...
...were quite amazed that things went so smoothly with no terrible disasters," Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin and a CREA member, said yesterday...
...Stewart said the committee was united in its view of the success of equal access...
...Ajootian began the mauling with a 196-ft. 2-in. winning toss in the hammer throw. Freshmen Dave Kinney (210-ft. 3-in.) and Mike Stewart (194-ft. 2-in.) placed 1-2 in the javelin as Harvard edged into an early lead...